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"And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now."
"People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble."
"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising."
"One illusion is as good as another."
"There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views."
"Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives."
"Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five."
"We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us."
"A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it."
"She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love."
"Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone."
"Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist."
"They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going."
"“Everybody gives you belief for the asking,” she said to David, “and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief—just not letting you down, that's all. It's so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered."
"I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun."
"Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."
"I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather."